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ChatGPT says, “Sure! Let’s see, what’s 100% a scam but we still fall for it hook, line, and sinker? Oh, I know! The “get rich quick” scheme! It’s like the ultimate “too good to be true” offer – promises of quick and easy wealth with little to no effort. But, just like a fisherman’s tale of the one that got away, these schemes always seem to slip away, leaving us empty handed. So, let’s all be like wise old fish and avoid getting caught in these scams. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!”

We also asked an old QOTW, What older classic horror movie would you recommend?

ChatGPT says, “One classic horror movie that I would recommend if you’re in the mood for a good old fashioned belly laugh is “Young Frankenstein” (1974) directed by Mel Brooks. This film is a parody of the classic horror genre and is packed with comedic moments and memorable characters. It tells the story of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who inherits a castle in Transylvania and decides to continue his ancestor’s experiments by creating a monster of his own. This movie is known for its comedic take on the classic story, and its memorable performances by Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman and Cloris Leachman. It’s considered one of the funniest movies of all time and a must-watch if you’re looking for a good laugh.”

On This Day In History for January 18, 2023

This is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining in 2023.

It was on this date in 1778, that James Cook was the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the “Sandwich Islands”

235 years ago today, The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrived at Botany Bay

An X-ray generating machine was exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith on this date in 1896

It was also this date in 1977 that Scientists identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease

It was on this date in 1981, that Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachuted off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs)

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Watson, born on this date in 1854.

Austrian-Dutch physicist and academic, Paul Ehrenfest was born 143 years ago today.

Oliver Hardy, the American actor and comedian was born 131 years ago today.

Russian mathematician and academic, Ivan Petrovsky was born 122 years ago today.

Cary Grant, the English-American actor was born 119 years ago today.

Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Yoichiro Nambu was born 102 years ago today.

Born January 18, 1933, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories Ray Dolby.

American actor, director, and producer, Kevin Costner, born on this date in 1955.

American astronomer, Amy Barger is 52 today.

American biochemist and academic, Michael Kearney, born on this date in 1984.

Listener Birthdays

21 – Michael Rabalais

22 – TAW012294

23 – Kathie Luke, IL

23 – Chris Moody from PodioMedia Chat

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On This Day In History for January 11, 2023

This is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining in 2023.

It was on this date in 1759, that The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), was incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

It was 236 years ago today, that William Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus

It was on this date in 1908, that Grand Canyon National Monument is created

It was also this date in 1922 that Leonard Thompson became the first person to be injected with insulin

Also on January 11, 1927, Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announced the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

Also today in 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California

That same date in 1949, The first “networked” television broadcast took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania went on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming

It was on this date in 1964, that Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States said that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts

That same date in 2020, Municipal health officials in Wuhan announced the first recorded death from COVID-19.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

English engineer and architect, Samuel Bentham, born on this date in 1757.

Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University was born on that same date in 1807.

Swedish mathematician and physicist, Albert Victor Bäcklund, born on this date in 1845.

G. W. Pierce, American physicist and academic was born on that same date in 1872.

Laurens Hammond, the American engineer and businessman, founded the Hammond Clock Company was born 128 years ago today.

Born January 11, 1906, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD Albert Hofmann.

Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut, Lev Dyomin was born 97 years ago today.

American web developer and businessman, co-created WordPress, Matt Mullenweg is 39 today.

Listener Birthdays

13 – Tim Cook

14 – Glynne Tolar

15 – Ralph Whitfield (aka GoofyRalph)

17 – fuffy_frog (aka Kristina) originally from Canada but now from Thailand

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 11, 2023

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On This Day In History for January 4, 2023

This is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 361 days remaining in 2023.

It was on this date in 1854, that The McDonald Islands were discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.

Also on January 4, 1903, Topsy, an elephant, was electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company recorded the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy’s death.

It was also this date in 1958 that Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, fell to Earth from orbit.

On January 4, 1959, Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

Also January 4, 1975 was when the 12 -bit field that had been used in the TOPS-10 operating system overflowed. There were numerous problems and crashes related to this bug while an alternative format was developed.

Also today in 2004, Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

On January 4, 2010, The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opened in Dubai.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

English mathematician and physicist (d. 1726/27), NS) – Isaac Newton, born on this date in 1643.

Born January 4, 1838, American circus performer General Tom Thumb.

Carl Humann, German archaeologist, architect, and engineer was born on that same date in 1839.

American engineer and businessman, co-founded Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co., Leroy Grumman was born 128 years ago today.

American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter, Dyan Cannon, born on this date in 1937.

Also born on that same date in 1940, Welsh physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Brian Josephson.

Also turning 78 today is American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Richard R. Schrock.

Also born on that same date in 1958, American-Canadian actor, Matt Frewer.

Listener Birthdays

3 – Thomas Gideon (The Command Line Podcast)

6 – Steve Therrien (Canada)

8 – Elvis!

9 – Lingo from the Brit & Yankee pubcast

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January  4, 2023. If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.

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On This Day In History for December 14, 2022

This is the 348th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 17 days remaining in 2022

It was on this date in 1782, that The Montgolfier brothers first test flew an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floated nearly 2.5 km (1.6 mi).

Also on December 14, 1900, Max Planck presented a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law in quantum theory at the Physic Society in Berlin.

The Commercial Pacific Cable Company laid the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu. on this date in 1902

It was on this date in 1903, that The Wright brothers made their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Also on December 14, 1918, The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurred, the first where women were permitted to vote.

It was on this date in 1940, that Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) was first isolated at Berkeley, California

That same date in 1948, Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann were granted a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game.

On December 14, 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to fly by Venus

Also today in 1972, Eugene Cernan was the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt completed the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

Also on December 14, 1994, Construction began on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river

It was on this date in 2017, that The Walt Disney Company announced that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Danish astronomer and chemist, Tycho Brahe, born on this date in 1546.

Born December 14, 1794, American businessman and politician Erastus Corning.

Edward Lawrie Tatum, the American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 113 years ago today.

German-American physicist and engineer, Hans von Ohain was born 111 years ago today.

Nikolay Basov, the Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 100 years ago today.

David R. Harris, English geographer, anthropologist, and archaeologist was born on that same date in 1930.

Canadian physicist and astronaut, Steve MacLean is 68 today.

American mathematician and academic, Jill Pipher, born on this date in 1955.

Listener Birthdays

14 – Michael Spence from Brother Osric’s Scriptorium

17 – Jorge Schrauwen

20 – Phil Burchill the 9 year old I started listening to Technorama when I turned 21 this year (2017)!

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December  14, 2022

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On This Day In History for November 23, 2022

This is the 327th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining in 2022.

It was on this date in 1924, that Edwin Hubble’s discovery, that the Andromeda “nebula” is actually another island galaxy far outside our own Milky Way, was first published in The New York Times.

It was also this date in 1963 that The BBC broadcasts An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the  first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world’s longest running science fiction drama.

On November 23, 1972, The Soviet Union made its final attempt at launching the N1 rocket.

The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 went into effect, realigning many of Europe’s longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies. on this date in 1978

31 years ago today, Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announced in a statement that he was HIV-positive. He died the following day.

It was 30 years ago today, that The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, was introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada

It was on this date in 2001, that The Convention on Cybercrime was signed in Budapest, Hungary

Also on November 23, 2015, Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

French astronomer and author, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, born on this date in 1715.

English mathematician and author, Isaac Todhunter was born 202 years ago today.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1837.

Born November 23, 1887, English physicist and chemist Henry Moseley.

Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot was born on that same date in 1915.

Born November 23, 1924, English-American anthropologist and author Colin Turnbull.

Also turning 59 today is American businesswoman, President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX Gwynne Shotwell.

Listener Birthdays

25 – Lane Williams

26 – Joanie

27 – Brad P. from NJ(but who was born in VA, and has moved back there…)

28 – Ben Sweetser

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November  23, 2022

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On This Day In History for November 16, 2022

This is the 320th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 45 days remaining in 2022.

It was on this date in 1855, that David Livingstone became the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe

November 16, 1904, English engineer John Ambrose Fleming received a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube)

That same date in 1914, The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opened

On November 16, 1920, Qantas, Australia’s national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited

November 16, 1938, LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Also today in 1965, The Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet

It was also this date in 1973 that U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

Also today in 1973, NASA launched Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84 day mission.

That same date in 1974, The Arecibo message was broadcast from Puerto Rico

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher, Jean le Rond d’Alembert, born on this date in 1717.

Alexander Kolchak, the Russian admiral and explorer was born 148 years ago today.

American actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter, Burgess Meredith was born 115 years ago today.

Daws Butler, American voice actor and singer was born on that same date in 1916.

Gene Amdahl, the American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer was born 100 years ago today.

Japanese video game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, born on this date in 1952.

Also born on that same date in 1977,  Australian singer-songwriter and actress, Gigi Edgley.

Listener Birthdays

22 – Tom Posz – (from California, USA)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November  16, 2022

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On This Day In History for November 16, 2022

This is the 320th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 45 days remaining in 2022.

It was on this date in 1855, that David Livingstone became the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe

November 16, 1904, English engineer John Ambrose Fleming received a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube)

That same date in 1914, The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opened

On November 16, 1920, Qantas, Australia’s national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited

November 16, 1938, LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Also today in 1965, The Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet

It was also this date in 1973 that U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

Also today in 1973, NASA launched Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84 day mission.

That same date in 1974, The Arecibo message was broadcast from Puerto Rico

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher, Jean le Rond d’Alembert, born on this date in 1717.

Alexander Kolchak, the Russian admiral and explorer was born 148 years ago today.

American actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter, Burgess Meredith was born 115 years ago today.

Daws Butler, American voice actor and singer was born on that same date in 1916.

Gene Amdahl, the American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer was born 100 years ago today.

Japanese video game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, born on this date in 1952.

Also born on that same date in 1977,  Australian singer-songwriter and actress, Gigi Edgley.

Listener Birthdays

22 – Tom Posz – (from California, USA)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November  16, 2022

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On This Day In History for November 9, 2022

This is the 313rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining in 2022.

It was on this date in 1620, that Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Also on November 9, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt was the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal

Also today in 1960, Robert McNamara was named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy

55 years ago today, NASA launched the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida’s Cape Kennedy

Also today in 1979, The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert was canceled

37 years ago today, Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union became the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov

It was also this date in 1994 that The chemical element darmstadtium was discovered

It was 18 years ago today that Firefox 1.0 was released.

It was also this date in 2005 that The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Dutch physician and poet, Johannes Narssius, born on this date in 1580.

Gail Borden, American surveyor and publisher, invented condensed milk and was born on that same date in 1801.

Born November 9, 1880, English architect, designed the red telephone box Giles Gilbert Scott.

Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist was born on that same date in 1885.

German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher, Hermann Weyl, born on this date in 1885.

Arthur Rudolph, the German scientist and engineer was born 116 years ago today.

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor was born on that same date in 1914.

Born November 9, 1934, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist Carl Sagan.

Also born on that same date in 1951,  American bodybuilder and actor, Lou Ferrigno.

Also turning 58 today is American actor, director, and producer Robert Duncan McNeill.

Listener Birthdays

10 – John Noble from the Island

13 – Pippa (London UK)

13 – Jennifer Therrien (Canada)

15 – Jackie Breller (Krazy Joe & Christine’s daughter)

15 – Chuck Jolley aka nitestarr – (Horn Lake, MS)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 9, 2022

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On This Day In History for November 2, 2022

This is the 306th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining in 2022.

It was on this date in 1868, that New Zealand officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally

On November 2, 1920, In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh started broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election

86 years ago today, The British Broadcasting Corporation initiated the BBC Television Service, the world’s first regular, “high-definition” (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day

It was also this date in 1947 that In California, designer Howard Hughes performed the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the “Spruce Goose”), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built

That same date in 1959, The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, was opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway

Also on November 2, 1960, Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case

On November 2, 1988, The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT

Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted on this date in 2000

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

American hunter and explorer, Daniel Boone, born on this date in 1734.

Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette was born 267 years ago today.

Born November 2, 1815, English mathematician and philosopher George Boole.

American inventor, John J. Loud, born on this date in 1844.

Harlow Shapley, the American astronomer and academic was born 137 years ago today.

Born November 2, 1894, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer Alexander Lippisch.

Raphael M. Robinson, the American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist was born 111 years ago today.

Ray Walston, American actor was born on that same date in 1914.

American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation, Amar Bose, born on this date in 1929.

Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Richard E. Taylor was born 93 years ago today.

Listener Birthdays

2 – Mark McCoy

3 – Ken Pace

3 – Craig Glassner (aka Ranger Craig)

4 – Avner (OMG, its 2014 – I’m 40 already)

5 – Michael Corlett (from New Zealand)

8 – John Clifford

8 – Mark, the Encaffeinated ONE, host of The Weird Show

8 – OnTheDrift

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November  2, 2022

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On This Day in History for October 19, 2022

This is the 292nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining in 2022.

It was on this date in 1386, that The Universität Heidelberg held its first lecture, making it the oldest German university

Also on October 19, 1900, Max Planck discovered Planck’s law of black-body radiation

October 19, 1943, Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was isolated by researchers at Rutgers University

That same date in 1987, Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22%, 508 points

Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II on this date in 2003

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Italian astrologer and philosopher, Marsilio Ficino, born on this date in 1433.

Born October 19, 1885, American banker and philanthropist, co-founded Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Charles E. Merrill.

Marguerite Perey, the French physicist and academic was born 113 years ago today.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1910.

Born October 19, 1916, French-Spanish immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Jean Dausset.

Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, the Indian mathematician was born 105 years ago today.

Austrian-American oceanographer, author, and academic, Walter Munk, born on this date in 1917.

American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company, Lou Scheimer was born 94 years ago today.

Robert Reed, the American actor was born 90 years ago today.

American actor, John Lithgow, born on this date in 1945.

Also born on that same date in 1951,  Greek mathematician and physicist, Demetrios Christodoulou.

Listener Birthdays

19 – Russell Pearson (Ninereeds)

20 – Mike from near Des Moines, Iowa

21 – Daniel Ebdrup Jensen (D. Ebdrup)

21 – Justin Diehl (nulloperations)

22 – Zach – zml2008

22 – Cassandra Therrien (Canada)

25 – Mad Marv – spelled “K – Y – L – E” but pronounced “Marv”. Hope that helps

25 – HMNSHLD

25 – BritOnTour (Jason)

25 – Scott (Minneapolis)

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